Episode summary: Hitler and Goebbels read Walter Benjamin in the bunker, Orson Wells discovers the magic of the fake crowd. Plus, a profile of artist Lynn Hershman Leeson.

Episode summary: The right kind of expert, at the right time, can change everything.

Episode summary: When Shigeru Yabu was 9 years old, he and his family were incarcerated at Heart Mountain Internment Camp, along with thousands of other Japanese and Japanese American families. One day, Shigeru discovered a baby magpie that had fallen out of its nest. He named her Maggie. “That bird...

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Episode summary: While urban parks are safe havens for birds, parks are often surrounded by condos and hotels and office buildings with floor-to-ceiling windows. And these all-glass building facades are the absolute worst for migrating birds. Because unlike people, birds don’t really understand glas...

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Episode summary: History is the story of those making a future that never came to pass.

Episode summary: Could an explosion in tea-drinking explain a decline in deaths in England during the industrial revolution? Professor Francisca Antman, an economist at the University of Colorado Boulder believes it might. Tim Harford discovers that dusting down the data from tea shipments and local...

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Episode summary: Why can’t we see the experts right in front of us, even when they’re saving our lives?

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Episode summary: A few months ago, Sheila Dillon opened a glass jar of chickpeas in her kitchen. Their taste was so different from those she had been eating for years from cans, she took to social media to find out why. The story that unfolded in the comments led back to the Spanish, and their way o...

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Episode summary: Trump’s improper dealing with Ukraine was what led to his first impeachment. While most of us were focused on the domestic political implications of Trump’s action, the country of Ukraine was put into jeopardy in a way that many didn’t fully realize until the recent Russian invasion...

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Episode summary: What the hell is “adversarial interopability”? Science fiction writer and prolific blogger Cory Doctorow thinks it’s going to set you free from Facebook, letting you take your data and pictures wherever you want to go. And he believes surveillance capitalism is standing in your way....

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